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Departure
Reduce climb power to bring speed back to 69 kt and hold it there.
What happened: Climb speed was 24 kt fast at 93 kt during the climb.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator: 69 kt in the climb
Arrival
Add power on short final to hold speed at 53 kt, correcting the slow threshold speed before it carries through to the flare.
What happened: Threshold speed was slow at 51 kt against 53 kt, and touchdown followed short of the aim point at 94 m. Crossing the threshold slow like this usually carries the touchdown short.
Watch for: Airspeed indicator against 53 kt on short final.
Every knot above Vref is stored kinetic energy, and energy stored at the threshold must be dissipated in ground effect before the aeroplane will stop flying. Because kinetic energy scales with the square of speed, the excess you must dissipate grows fast. At a 45-knot approach, five knots hot is over a tenth more speed and roughly a quarter more energy to get rid of in ground effect. This is why the fix is never in the flare. It was decided three miles earlier, on final, at the airspeed indicator.
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From brake release to the end of the climb, against time, then the takeoff point by point.
Rotated at 55 kt, on the 54 kt target, and lifted off at 66 kt 3.7 s later, the nose coming up at 0.7° a second. Climb 3 averaged 93 kt, 24 kt over its 69 kt target.
Two traces from brake release: the airspeed on top, and below it the pitch, which is how far the nose is above the horizon. The dashed green line is the speed to rotate at for this aircraft at its weight, and the green dot is where the nose started to come up. The figures at liftoff are the pitch then and how fast the nose came up, in degrees a second. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, the part of the climb scored on holding the climb speed.
The takeoff, point by point
Side view from the start of the roll to the end of Climb 3 at 780 ft. The distance scale changes past the runway end.
Reached 35 ft with 787 m of runway left; then climbing at 290 fpm on average to 780 ft.
The takeoff from the side: the height above the runway against the distance along it. The numbers along the runway are the speeds reached at each point. Lifting off in the amber last quarter of the runway costs marks for the roll length. The shaded stretch is Climb 3, scored on its average speed against the target.
Plan view the roll down the 1,578 m runway.
Rolled from 51 m in, drifted left of the centreline, 1.7 m at the widest, and lifted off 1.7 m left. Airborne 33 % of the way down the runway, before the 75 % line.
The roll from above, with your left at the top. The line is where the wheels went, and "widest" is the furthest you drifted off the centreline. Lifting off before the amber 75 % line gets full marks for the roll length.
One stabilised approach gate: seven checks where the approach path is 500 ft above the runway. The 1,000 ft gate was not assessed, because the approach did not join final that far out. These checks are the approach's score.
At the 500 ft gate: speed more than 16 kt above the approach speed of 53 kt.
When the approach was stable
Every check met from 0.6 nm, about 160 ft above the runway, to the threshold, after the 500 ft gate. The last to settle was the speed.
Each line is one of the gate checks, run along the whole final rather than only at the gates: green where it would have passed, amber where it would not. The glideslope, centreline and speed lines use the bands in the charts beside this card. The sink rate is allowed what the glideslope needs at your ground speed plus 600 fpm, the wings 10° of bank, and the gear and flap are read from when you moved the levers. The bottom line is green where every check held at once, ignoring blips shorter than 0.2 nm, and the sentence above it says from where it held to the threshold. A ring is a stabilisation gate, where the checks in the table were taken.
The final from 4 nm, with the stabilisation gates on it.
Profile height against the 3° glideslope, with its 2° band in green.
Inside the glideslope band from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to the threshold, never more than 310 ft below the slope.
Your height above the runway against the distance still to go. The glideslope is the steady descent path to the aiming point, 305 m past the threshold: 3° here, which is about 320 ft for every nautical mile out, crossing the threshold at about 50 ft. The row under the distances is the height it puts you at. Inside the green band your path is drawn green; outside it, amber. A ring is a stabilisation gate: green when every check there passed, amber with the failed checks named beside it.
Plan distance off the extended centreline, your left at the top, with the 1° band. Sideways distances are drawn 3× larger than distances along the final.
Inside the 1° band all the way from 2.7 nm, never more than 200 m off the centreline.
Looking down from above, flying left to right towards the runway: up the page is left of the centreline, down is right. Sideways distances are stretched so that small drifts show, so a line that looks wild here may be only a few tens of feet. The labels are how far off you were at each distance, amber when outside the band.
Speed against the approach speed. The green band runs from 5 kt slow to 27 kt fast at the 1,000 ft gate, closing to 16 at 500 ft and 10 at the threshold.
Inside the speed band from 2.7 nm, where the final began, to 2.4 nm, then fast to 0.6 nm (up to +28 kt), then inside the band to the threshold.
Your indicated airspeed down the final, against the approach speed for this aircraft at its landing weight. The band allows 5 kt slow and more on the fast side further out, closing as you get lower, because the speed is expected to come off on the way down. The figures are knots above (+) or below (−) the approach speed.
Over the threshold
Touchdown
The aircraft touched down before the threshold. Everything the flare is measured against - the profile, the crossing height, the aim point - is referenced to a threshold this landing never reached, so read the numbers below as what happened short of the runway, not on it. Landing short is the fault to fix before anything about the hold-off is worth judging.
No crosswind: nothing to correct for. Touched down with the nose 9° left of the track, wings level.
Wind 270° at 1 kt · 1 kt tail · 0 kt across
The wind is the one recorded at the landing, split along the runway (headwind or tailwind) and across it. To hold the centreline in a crosswind the nose points a little into wind - the crab - and is straightened with rudder just before the wheels touch, often with the into-wind wing lowered to stop the drift. These are the nose against the direction you were actually moving, and the wings, at the moment of touchdown. Shown for reading; not marked.
From 47 kt at touchdown to taxi speed (30 kt) in 17 s, an average deceleration of 0.06 g.
Your ground speed from the moment the wheels touched until you were down to taxi speed, against the distance rolled. A steep line is hard braking, a shallow one a long, gentle roll. For scale, an airliner's lowest autobrake setting decelerates at about 0.15 g, a medium one about 0.3 g. Shown for reading; not marked.
Side view — the last 1,368 m of the approach.
Began the flare at 29 ft, 405 m before the threshold; crossed the threshold at 38 ft, 12 ft below the 50 ft target. Touched down 94 m before the threshold.
The last stretch of the approach and the touchdown, from the side. The height is stretched so that the last few feet show: 80 ft top to bottom, against 1,368 m across. The dashed line is the ideal, 50 ft over the threshold and down 305 m in. The flare ring is where you began raising the nose, and "descent slowed" is where the sink came off; the figures beside them are the sink rate, pitch and speed at that point.
Plan view — the full 1,368 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The runway from above, with your left at the top. Touching down inside the green bracket scores full marks for the distance. The shaded part is the rollout, up to where it ended.
Touched down 94 m short of the threshold. The arrival was smooth.
The rest of the report
The Cessna 152 departed from runway 24 at EGNC Carlisle Lake District Airport, using a take-off distance of 545 m which represented 35 % of the runway. Liftoff was achieved at 66 kt. Ambient conditions were 15 °C with a wind of 1 kt from 270°, giving a 1 kt headwind and a 1 kt cross-wind component.
During the climb the aircraft entered a left-hand pattern from runway 24, covering 3 nm in 19 seconds. The subsequent left-hand cross-wind leg was less than 1 nm and required 23 seconds to complete.
A go-around was executed on runway 06 at EGNC, with the aircraft climbing to 693 ft agl before re-establishing a missed-approach profile.
The descent phase began at 640 ft agl and continued to 33 ft agl, a vertical change completed in 113 seconds.
On the final approach to runway 06 the aircraft satisfied the stabilisation gates, maintaining the prescribed glide path and speed parameters.
Landing was made on runway 06, whose length is 1,368 m. The threshold speed was recorded slightly below target at 51 kt. Touchdown occurred 367 m down the runway at 37 kt with a descent rate of minus 76 fpm, and runway-touchdown alignment was judged very good. Weather remained 15 °C with a 1 kt wind from 270°, now a 1 kt tail-wind and 1 kt cross-wind component.
Rollout covered a total landing distance of 689 m, equal to 50 % of the runway, and the aircraft’s centre-line alignment was offset by 10.2 m.
In summary, the flight covered a total distance of 10 nm, took 6 (as reported), and used 0 kg of fuel.
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